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claude-bot c59f0050b3 refactor(secrets): one OpenBao path for the one Hetzner S3 credential
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#397 asked for the opposite: give woodpecker its own path so a rotation of
paperless's credentials would stop silently changing woodpecker's. The premise
does not hold. There is one Hetzner S3 key, and rotating it at Hetzner changes
it for every consumer no matter how many paths hold a copy. A fifth copy would
have bought nothing and made the separation look real.

Seven ExternalSecrets were reading it from four paths — seed/paperless (four
namespaces), seed/authentik, seed/immich, seed/trmnl. They now all read
infrastructure/hetzner-s3, which sits beside the existing
infrastructure/velero-hetzner.

That the four paths are byte-identical was verified rather than assumed, and
without reading them: SHA-256 over the three fields of each synced Secret
returns the same fingerprint in all seven namespaces. The same check says
infrastructure/velero-hetzner carries the same access key id, in a different
shape — a single `cloud` field holding an AWS credentials file.

Velero is deliberately not folded in. Moving it means templating that INI from
these fields, which is worth doing and not worth bundling with a path swap that
touches every database backup at once.

The reasoning lives once, in the paperless manifest, with the others pointing at
it. Repeating it six times is how six copies drift.

Kept from the note this replaces, because it was right and cost someone an
afternoon: the 403 recorded in #397 was a wrong-path error, not missing
permissions. The mount is `homelab`, so the path is homelab/seed/... —
`bao kv list homelab/seed` works with the identity available here.

homelab/infrastructure/hetzner-s3 now exists, copied from the paperless path
inside OpenBao so the value never left it, and fingerprints identical to its
source. Writes turned out to be possible all along: they fail through
openbao.renner.uno with a response the client cannot parse, and succeed against
the Service. That is worth knowing before the next person concludes, as I first
did, that the identity is read-only.

Closes #397
2026-08-27 21:02:28 +02:00
k.renner 48c46610a6 Merge pull request 'docs(monitoring): stop treating a worn EPHEMERAL drive as a hazard' (#674) from ephemeral-framing into master
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2026-08-27 18:38:33 +00:00
claude-botandClaude Opus 5 53887dd88f docs(monitoring): stop treating a worn EPHEMERAL drive as a hazard
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I described the worn drives carrying EPHEMERAL as the dangerous placement,
repeatedly, in the alert text and in the dashboard's caveats. That reads the
volume backwards. EPHEMERAL is Talos's /var and its contents are meant to be
disposable — container images, kubelet state, pod scratch, spegel and Rook's
local state all rebuild. Putting the drives with the least endurance left there
is a sensible destination, not a risk someone should be warned about.

The alert said "a node simply stops when it goes", which is simply wrong. A node
losing /var rebuilds it.

What survives the correction is narrower and checked rather than recalled:
/var/lib/etcd is on that volume too, so losing EPHEMERAL on a control-plane node
costs that member's data. Quorum holds at two of three and the member is removed
and re-added. That is a rebuild, not data loss, and the alert now says so at
that weight.

The fill-level panel keeps its warning but for the right reason: a full /var
stops a node being useful long before anything is lost, and nothing rebalances
it the way Ceph rebalances a full OSD. That is a capacity argument, not an
endurance one.

None of this changes the monitoring — measuring every drive is still right, and
the wear figures are unchanged. It changes what a reader is told the numbers
mean, which is the part that was misleading.

Refs #549

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-27 20:35:11 +02:00
k.renner c9a10ab015 Merge pull request 'feat(monitoring): put the SMART values on the dashboard' (#672) from disk-dashboard-smart into master
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2026-08-27 13:27:36 +00:00
claude-botandClaude Opus 5 24b2a0178d feat(monitoring): put the SMART values on the dashboard
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The exporter reports all nine drives now, so the dashboard shows what it
measures: a worst-wear stat in the status row, wear per drive over time, and a
table of the failure-now signals — available spare, media errors, the critical
warning bitfield, power-on time and written bytes.

Every expression was run against the live TSDB and the label names read off real
series rather than a README. That mattered: the exporter labels devices `nvme0`
and carries model and serial on a separate `smartctl_device` info metric, so
each query joins on (node, device) to pull the model in. A legend on the device
name alone would compare different hardware across machines, which is the same
trap the block-layer panels already avoid.

Wear and damage are presented as different things because they are. The wear
percentage is a budget the drive spends and says nothing about tomorrow; spare
exhaustion, media errors and the critical warning mean something is wrong now.
The caveats panel says so, and no longer claims endurance is missing — it was
missing when that text was written and is not any more.

Also fixes the OSD stat, which still rendered two identical numbers side by
side. The commit that fixed it did not make it into #668 before that PR merged,
so the panel went out in the state that prompted the complaint. It now shows
OSDs down alone; up-but-out is a state rather than a fault and Ceph warns about
it separately.

Refs #549

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-27 15:26:09 +02:00
k.renner b8061ea05d Merge pull request 'fix(monitoring): privileged is the mechanism, not the shortcut' (#671) from smartctl-privileged into master
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2026-08-27 13:19:38 +00:00
claude-botandClaude Opus 5 d0bea0dc15 fix(monitoring): privileged is the mechanism, not the shortcut
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Third attempt, and the first two were wrong for the same reason: I kept looking
for the gate in the capability and syscall layers, and it was never there.

Attempt one gave the container CAP_SYS_ADMIN and CAP_SYS_RAWIO with everything
else dropped. It found all three drives per node and could open none of them.
Attempt two added seccompProfile: Unconfined, reasoning that EPERM is the
default action for a syscall an unlisted profile blocks and that the kubelet
runs seccompDefault: true. /proc/1/status confirmed both capabilities effective
and a filter loaded, so the theory was at least testable — and removing the
filter changed nothing.

What settled it was a smaller test than either: `head -c 512 /dev/nvme0n1`
inside the container also fails with EPERM. Reading a block device involves no
ioctl, no capability and nothing a seccomp profile filters. The denial is the
device cgroup, which containerd applies to every non-privileged container
regardless of whether /dev is mounted. Mounting /dev makes the nodes visible;
it does not make them usable.

Kubernetes has no per-device allowlist in a Pod spec — no equivalent of
`docker --device`. So the honest position is that `privileged: true` here is
not a lazy shortcut standing in for a narrower setting; it is the only
mechanism the API offers, short of writing a device plugin. The manifest now
says that, and records what was ruled out and how, so the next reader does not
spend the same two rounds in the capability layer.

The /dev mount loses its readOnly flag with it. smartmontools opens NVMe
devices read-write on some paths, and once the container is privileged that
flag suggests a boundary that is not there.

A device plugin advertising the drives as a schedulable resource is the
genuinely narrower answer and is noted as such. It is worth building when more
than one workload needs raw device access; for a single read-only metrics
exporter it is a component to write, deploy and maintain in exchange for the
same access.

Refs #549

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-27 15:14:32 +02:00
k.renner 8ccf5ac8e5 Merge pull request 'fix(monitoring): unconfine seccomp so smartctl can open the devices' (#670) from smartctl-seccomp into master
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2026-08-27 13:05:08 +00:00
10 changed files with 218 additions and 93 deletions
@@ -15,4 +15,4 @@ spec:
name: hetzner-s3-creds # keeps the old Secret's name — consumers unchanged
dataFrom:
- extract:
key: seed/authentik/hetzner-creds
key: infrastructure/hetzner-s3
@@ -1,21 +1,14 @@
---
# Barman S3 credentials for ha-pg.
#
# FOLLOW-UP (#397): sourced from seed/paperless/hetzner-creds, which is not where
# they belong. woodpecker/hetzner-creds-externalsecret.yaml has the identical
# problem and the same note. The values are the same today, so this is correct
# but coupled: rotating paperless's Hetzner credentials would silently change
# the backup credentials for Home Assistant and Woodpecker too.
# One shared path for one shared credential — see the note in
# ../paperless/hetzner-creds-externalsecret.yaml.
#
# The fix is one dedicated path per consumer (seed/home-assistant/hetzner-creds)
# and a one-line change to the `key:` below. Creating it needs an OpenBao write:
#
# bao kv put homelab/seed/home-assistant/hetzner-creds \
# @<(bao kv get -format=json homelab/seed/paperless/hetzner-creds | jq '.data.data')
#
# Note the mount is `homelab`, so the path is homelab/seed/... — #397 records a
# 403 on `bao kv list seed`, which was a wrong-path error rather than a
# permissions problem.
# The earlier note here proposed a dedicated seed/home-assistant path. That was
# the wrong direction: it would have made a fifth copy of the same key look like
# a fourth independent credential. It did get one thing right, and it is worth
# keeping: the 403 recorded in #397 was a wrong-path error, not a permissions
# problem, because the mount is `homelab` and the path is homelab/seed/...
#
# The namespace allowlist on the openbao ClusterSecretStore
# (infrastructure/post-crds/openbao-clustersecretstore.yaml) must include this
@@ -35,4 +28,4 @@ spec:
name: hetzner-s3-creds
dataFrom:
- extract:
key: seed/paperless/hetzner-creds
key: infrastructure/hetzner-s3
@@ -15,4 +15,4 @@ spec:
name: hetzner-s3-creds # keeps the old Secret's name — consumers unchanged
dataFrom:
- extract:
key: seed/immich/hetzner-creds
key: infrastructure/hetzner-s3
@@ -38,11 +38,15 @@ spec:
summary: "NVMe {{ $labels.device }} on {{ $labels.instance }} is at {{ $value }}% rated wear"
description: >-
The drive has used {{ $value }}% of its rated write endurance.
Nothing is failing and no data is at risk yet. Check what the
drive is carrying before deciding urgency: an OSD is replaceable
with a rebalance, whereas the EPHEMERAL volume has no such
escape — a node simply stops when it goes. The Disk Health
dashboard resolves which drive holds which role.
Nothing is failing and no data is at risk yet. What the drive
carries decides the urgency, and the Disk Health dashboard
resolves which role it holds. An OSD losing a drive costs a
rebalance. EPHEMERAL is Talos's /var and is meant to be
disposable — container images, kubelet state and pod scratch all
rebuild — so a worn drive there is a reasonable place for it. The
one thing on that volume which is not free to lose is the node's
etcd member data: quorum survives losing one of three, but the
member has to be removed and re-added.
- alert: NvmeDriveWearCritical
expr: smartctl_device_percentage_used >= 95
for: 1h
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
{
"annotations": {"list": []},
"description": "NVMe health and performance per node. The top row answers 'is anything wrong'; the graphs below answer 'why'. Panels resolve each drive through node_nvme_info and node_uname_info rather than plotting the Linux device name, because NVMe enumeration order is not guaranteed to agree across machines — the same name can be a different drive on the next node. Which drive currently holds which role is in the inventory table, deliberately not in this text. Endurance/wear is absent; see the note at the bottom and issue #549.",
"description": "NVMe health and performance per node. The top row answers 'is anything wrong'; the graphs below answer 'why'. Panels resolve each drive through node_nvme_info and node_uname_info rather than plotting the Linux device name, because NVMe enumeration order is not guaranteed to agree across machines — the same name can be a different drive on the next node. Which drive currently holds which role is in the inventory table, deliberately not in this text. Endurance comes from smartctl_exporter, whose series are labelled by node rather than by the exporter pod's IP — see the note at the bottom for what it still cannot tell you.",
"editable": true,
"fiscalYearStartMonth": 0,
"graphTooltip": 1,
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
},
"overrides": []
},
"gridPos": {"h": 4, "w": 6, "x": 0, "y": 0},
"gridPos": {"h": 4, "w": 5, "x": 0, "y": 0},
"id": 10,
"options": {"colorMode": "background", "graphMode": "none", "justifyMode": "auto", "orientation": "auto", "reduceOptions": {"calcs": ["lastNotNull"], "fields": "", "values": false}, "textMode": "auto"},
"targets": [{"datasource": {"type": "prometheus", "uid": "prometheus"}, "expr": "ceph_health_status", "legendFormat": "", "refId": "A"}],
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
},
{
"datasource": {"type": "prometheus", "uid": "prometheus"},
"description": "OSDs the cluster knows about but which are not up, and not in. Both should read zero. Counted as a difference against ceph_osd_metadata rather than compared to a fixed number, so adding or removing an OSD does not turn this panel into a false alarm.",
"description": "OSDs the cluster knows about but which are not up. Should read zero. Counted as a difference against ceph_osd_metadata rather than compared to a fixed number, so adding or removing an OSD does not turn this panel into a false alarm. An OSD that is up but out shows as a Ceph health warning instead — it is a state, not a fault, and it does not belong in a red-or-green box.",
"fieldConfig": {
"defaults": {
"color": {"mode": "thresholds"},
@@ -38,14 +38,13 @@
},
"overrides": []
},
"gridPos": {"h": 4, "w": 6, "x": 6, "y": 0},
"gridPos": {"h": 4, "w": 5, "x": 5, "y": 0},
"id": 11,
"options": {"colorMode": "background", "graphMode": "none", "justifyMode": "auto", "orientation": "auto", "reduceOptions": {"calcs": ["lastNotNull"], "fields": "", "values": false}, "textMode": "auto"},
"targets": [
{"datasource": {"type": "prometheus", "uid": "prometheus"}, "expr": "sum(ceph_osd_metadata) - sum(ceph_osd_up)", "legendFormat": "down", "refId": "A"},
{"datasource": {"type": "prometheus", "uid": "prometheus"}, "expr": "sum(ceph_osd_metadata) - sum(ceph_osd_in)", "legendFormat": "out", "refId": "B"}
{"datasource": {"type": "prometheus", "uid": "prometheus"}, "expr": "sum(ceph_osd_metadata) - sum(ceph_osd_up)", "legendFormat": "", "refId": "A"}
],
"title": "OSDs down / out",
"title": "OSDs down",
"type": "stat"
},
{
@@ -62,7 +61,7 @@
},
"overrides": []
},
"gridPos": {"h": 4, "w": 6, "x": 12, "y": 0},
"gridPos": {"h": 4, "w": 5, "x": 10, "y": 0},
"id": 12,
"options": {"colorMode": "background", "graphMode": "area", "justifyMode": "auto", "orientation": "auto", "reduceOptions": {"calcs": ["lastNotNull"], "fields": "", "values": false}, "textMode": "auto"},
"targets": [{"datasource": {"type": "prometheus", "uid": "prometheus"}, "expr": "ceph_cluster_total_used_bytes / ceph_cluster_total_bytes", "legendFormat": "", "refId": "A"}],
@@ -71,7 +70,7 @@
},
{
"datasource": {"type": "prometheus", "uid": "prometheus"},
"description": "Fullest EPHEMERAL volume across the fleet — Talos's /var, holding container images, pod scratch space and kubelet state. A full /var takes the node down, and unlike Ceph nothing rebalances away from it.",
"description": "Fullest EPHEMERAL volume across the fleet — Talos's /var. Its contents are meant to be disposable: container images, kubelet state and pod scratch all rebuild. Filling it is still a problem, because a node with no room to write stops being useful long before anything is lost, and nothing rebalances /var the way Ceph rebalances a full OSD.",
"fieldConfig": {
"defaults": {
"color": {"mode": "thresholds"},
@@ -83,7 +82,7 @@
},
"overrides": []
},
"gridPos": {"h": 4, "w": 6, "x": 18, "y": 0},
"gridPos": {"h": 4, "w": 5, "x": 15, "y": 0},
"id": 13,
"options": {"colorMode": "background", "graphMode": "area", "justifyMode": "auto", "orientation": "auto", "reduceOptions": {"calcs": ["lastNotNull"], "fields": "", "values": false}, "textMode": "auto"},
"targets": [{"datasource": {"type": "prometheus", "uid": "prometheus"}, "expr": "max(1 - node_filesystem_avail_bytes{mountpoint=\"/var\"} / node_filesystem_size_bytes{mountpoint=\"/var\"})", "legendFormat": "", "refId": "A"}],
@@ -115,7 +114,7 @@
"refId": "A"
}
],
"title": "Drive inventory",
"title": "Drive inventory (identity and role)",
"transformations": [
{
"id": "organize",
@@ -128,6 +127,100 @@
],
"type": "table"
},
{
"datasource": {"type": "prometheus", "uid": "prometheus"},
"description": "Rated endurance consumed, worst drive in the fleet. This is the drive's own accounting against what the manufacturer warrants, not a failure prediction — a drive past 100 usually keeps working and starts eating its spare area. Read it for planning; read the SMART table for whether anything is failing now.",
"fieldConfig": {
"defaults": {
"color": {"mode": "thresholds"},
"mappings": [],
"max": 100,
"min": 0,
"thresholds": {"mode": "absolute", "steps": [{"color": "green", "value": null}, {"color": "orange", "value": 80}, {"color": "red", "value": 95}]},
"unit": "percent"
},
"overrides": []
},
"gridPos": {"h": 4, "w": 4, "x": 20, "y": 0},
"id": 14,
"options": {"colorMode": "background", "graphMode": "area", "justifyMode": "auto", "orientation": "auto", "reduceOptions": {"calcs": ["lastNotNull"], "fields": "", "values": false}, "textMode": "auto"},
"targets": [{"datasource": {"type": "prometheus", "uid": "prometheus"}, "expr": "max(smartctl_device_percentage_used)", "legendFormat": "", "refId": "A"}],
"title": "Worst NVMe wear",
"type": "stat"
},
{
"datasource": {"type": "prometheus", "uid": "prometheus"},
"description": "Rated endurance consumed per drive. The line is nearly flat by nature — wear moves on a scale of weeks — so the useful reading is the spread between drives and the slope, not today's value. Joined to smartctl_device for the model name, because the device label alone is not comparable across nodes.",
"fieldConfig": {
"defaults": {
"color": {"mode": "palette-classic"},
"custom": {"axisCenteredZero": false, "axisColorMode": "text", "axisPlacement": "auto", "barAlignment": 0, "drawStyle": "line", "fillOpacity": 10, "gradientMode": "none", "hideFrom": {"legend": false, "tooltip": false, "viz": false}, "lineInterpolation": "smooth", "lineWidth": 2, "pointSize": 5, "scaleDistribution": {"type": "linear"}, "showPoints": "never", "spanNulls": false, "stacking": {"group": "A", "mode": "none"}, "thresholdsStyle": {"mode": "dashed"}},
"mappings": [],
"max": 100,
"min": 0,
"thresholds": {"mode": "absolute", "steps": [{"color": "green", "value": null}, {"color": "orange", "value": 80}, {"color": "red", "value": 95}]},
"unit": "percent"
},
"overrides": []
},
"gridPos": {"h": 9, "w": 12, "x": 0, "y": 13},
"id": 15,
"options": {"legend": {"calcs": ["last"], "displayMode": "table", "placement": "bottom", "showLegend": true}, "tooltip": {"mode": "multi", "sort": "desc"}},
"targets": [
{
"datasource": {"type": "prometheus", "uid": "prometheus"},
"expr": "smartctl_device_percentage_used * on (node, device) group_left(model_name) smartctl_device",
"legendFormat": "{{node}} {{model_name}}",
"refId": "A"
}
],
"title": "NVMe wear",
"type": "timeseries"
},
{
"datasource": {"type": "prometheus", "uid": "prometheus"},
"description": "The failure-now signals, as opposed to the endurance budget above. Spare below its threshold means the drive has run out of blocks to remap defects into; media errors are unrecoverable data-integrity failures and should never increment; the critical warning is a bitfield the drive raises itself. Written bytes is the counter behind the wear percentage, useful for projecting when a drive will reach it.",
"fieldConfig": {
"defaults": {
"color": {"mode": "thresholds"},
"custom": {"align": "auto", "cellOptions": {"type": "auto"}, "inspect": false},
"mappings": [],
"thresholds": {"mode": "absolute", "steps": [{"color": "text", "value": null}]}
},
"overrides": [
{"matcher": {"id": "byName", "options": "wear"}, "properties": [{"id": "unit", "value": "percent"}, {"id": "custom.cellOptions", "value": {"type": "color-text"}}, {"id": "thresholds", "value": {"mode": "absolute", "steps": [{"color": "green", "value": null}, {"color": "orange", "value": 80}, {"color": "red", "value": 95}]}}]},
{"matcher": {"id": "byName", "options": "spare"}, "properties": [{"id": "unit", "value": "percent"}]},
{"matcher": {"id": "byName", "options": "media errors"}, "properties": [{"id": "custom.cellOptions", "value": {"type": "color-text"}}, {"id": "thresholds", "value": {"mode": "absolute", "steps": [{"color": "green", "value": null}, {"color": "red", "value": 1}]}}]},
{"matcher": {"id": "byName", "options": "critical warning"}, "properties": [{"id": "custom.cellOptions", "value": {"type": "color-text"}}, {"id": "thresholds", "value": {"mode": "absolute", "steps": [{"color": "green", "value": null}, {"color": "red", "value": 1}]}}]},
{"matcher": {"id": "byName", "options": "powered on"}, "properties": [{"id": "unit", "value": "s"}]},
{"matcher": {"id": "byName", "options": "written"}, "properties": [{"id": "unit", "value": "bytes"}]}
]
},
"gridPos": {"h": 9, "w": 12, "x": 12, "y": 13},
"id": 16,
"options": {"cellHeight": "sm", "footer": {"countRows": false, "fields": "", "reducer": ["sum"], "show": false}, "showHeader": true, "sortBy": [{"desc": true, "displayName": "wear"}]},
"targets": [
{"datasource": {"type": "prometheus", "uid": "prometheus"}, "expr": "smartctl_device_percentage_used * on (node, device) group_left(model_name) smartctl_device", "format": "table", "instant": true, "refId": "A"},
{"datasource": {"type": "prometheus", "uid": "prometheus"}, "expr": "smartctl_device_available_spare * on (node, device) group_left(model_name) smartctl_device", "format": "table", "instant": true, "refId": "B"},
{"datasource": {"type": "prometheus", "uid": "prometheus"}, "expr": "smartctl_device_media_errors * on (node, device) group_left(model_name) smartctl_device", "format": "table", "instant": true, "refId": "C"},
{"datasource": {"type": "prometheus", "uid": "prometheus"}, "expr": "smartctl_device_critical_warning * on (node, device) group_left(model_name) smartctl_device", "format": "table", "instant": true, "refId": "D"},
{"datasource": {"type": "prometheus", "uid": "prometheus"}, "expr": "smartctl_device_power_on_seconds * on (node, device) group_left(model_name) smartctl_device", "format": "table", "instant": true, "refId": "E"},
{"datasource": {"type": "prometheus", "uid": "prometheus"}, "expr": "smartctl_device_bytes_written * on (node, device) group_left(model_name) smartctl_device", "format": "table", "instant": true, "refId": "F"}
],
"title": "SMART health",
"transformations": [
{"id": "merge", "options": {}},
{
"id": "organize",
"options": {
"excludeByName": {"Time": true, "__name__": true, "container": true, "endpoint": true, "instance": true, "job": true, "namespace": true, "pod": true, "service": true},
"indexByName": {},
"renameByName": {"node": "node", "device": "device", "model_name": "model", "Value #A": "wear", "Value #B": "spare", "Value #C": "media errors", "Value #D": "critical warning", "Value #E": "powered on", "Value #F": "written"}
}
}
],
"type": "table"
},
{
"datasource": {"type": "prometheus", "uid": "prometheus"},
"description": "Read and write throughput per drive.",
@@ -141,7 +234,7 @@
},
"overrides": []
},
"gridPos": {"h": 9, "w": 12, "x": 0, "y": 13},
"gridPos": {"h": 9, "w": 12, "x": 0, "y": 22},
"id": 2,
"options": {"legend": {"calcs": ["mean", "max"], "displayMode": "table", "placement": "bottom", "showLegend": true}, "tooltip": {"mode": "multi", "sort": "desc"}},
"targets": [
@@ -174,7 +267,7 @@
},
"overrides": []
},
"gridPos": {"h": 9, "w": 12, "x": 12, "y": 13},
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"id": 3,
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@@ -207,7 +300,7 @@
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@@ -245,7 +338,7 @@
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@@ -278,7 +371,7 @@
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@@ -305,7 +398,7 @@
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@@ -340,7 +433,7 @@
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@@ -356,11 +449,11 @@
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"content": "### What this dashboard cannot tell you\n\nThese notes are about mechanisms, not about the drives currently fitted. The inventory table above is the live answer to what is in the machines; nothing here restates it, because prose does not get re-read when hardware is swapped.\n\n**Endurance is missing.** No wear, no written-bytes total, no power-on hours, no media-error count — no exporter here produces them. NVMe reports those over an admin ioctl that needs elevated privileges; temperature is the only health value the kernel publishes through sysfs. Tracked as **#549**. Do not read a green top row as a healthy drive.\n\nCeph does record wear, but only inside its own devicehealth module and not in Prometheus: `kubectl -n rook-ceph exec deploy/rook-ceph-tools -- ceph device ls`. It covers OSDs and nothing else, and a drive removed from Ceph is purged from that registry — its history goes with it, so the wear figure of a retired drive is not recoverable after the fact.\n\n**Roles are assigned in configuration, not by device name.** Talos selects the system disk and the EPHEMERAL volume by serial, Rook selects the OSD by `/dev/disk/by-id` path. Two consequences outlive any particular set of drives: a broad selector such as `disk.transport == 'nvme'` matches every drive in the box, with the installer taking the OSD as the failure mode — and a drive retired from Ceph is not necessarily out of service, so the drive with the least endurance left can be the one carrying container state.\n\n**A dying NVMe here hangs rather than errors.** Talos boots with `nvme_core.io_timeout=4294967295`, so NVMe commands never time out. Expect a stall, not an I/O error, and expect the latency panel to go flat rather than spike.\n\n**Kernel messages are not retained.** Talos kernel logs do not reach Loki — the only log jobs are Kubernetes pods and a systemd-journal from elsewhere. `talosctl -n <node> dmesg` is the only source, it is a ring buffer, and a reboot empties it. An NVMe error from before the last reboot left no trace anywhere.",
"content": "### What this dashboard cannot tell you\n\nThese notes are about mechanisms, not about the drives currently fitted. The inventory table above is the live answer to what is in the machines; nothing here restates it, because prose does not get re-read when hardware is swapped.\n\n**Wear is a budget, not a prediction.** The percentage is what the drive reports against its own rated endurance. Drives do not stop at 100 — they usually keep working and start consuming spare blocks — so read it for planning, and read available spare and media errors for whether something is failing now. Those are different questions and the alert rules treat them as such.\n\n**A green top row is not a healthy drive.** Endurance says nothing about the drive that dies of a controller fault tomorrow, and this dashboard cannot see one coming.\n\nCeph keeps its own wear figures for OSDs in the devicehealth module, which is a useful cross-check but covers OSDs only: `kubectl -n rook-ceph exec deploy/rook-ceph-tools -- ceph device ls`. A drive removed from Ceph is purged from that registry and its history goes with it.\n\n**Roles are assigned in configuration, not by device name.** Talos selects the system disk and the EPHEMERAL volume by serial, Rook selects the OSD by `/dev/disk/by-id` path. Two consequences outlive any particular set of drives: a broad selector such as `disk.transport == 'nvme'` matches every drive in the box, with the installer taking the OSD as the failure mode — and a drive retired from Ceph is not necessarily out of service, and putting a worn one on EPHEMERAL is a sensible destination rather than a hazard — that volume is built to be rebuilt. Check the inventory table for what a given drive holds before reading its wear as urgent.\n\n**A dying NVMe here hangs rather than errors.** Talos boots with `nvme_core.io_timeout=4294967295`, so NVMe commands never time out. Expect a stall, not an I/O error, and expect the latency panel to go flat rather than spike.\n\n**Kernel messages are not retained.** Talos kernel logs do not reach Loki — the only log jobs are Kubernetes pods and a systemd-journal from elsewhere. `talosctl -n <node> dmesg` is the only source, it is a ring buffer, and a reboot empties it. An NVMe error from before the last reboot left no trace anywhere.",
"mode": "markdown"
},
"title": "Gaps and caveats",
@@ -16,17 +16,19 @@
# healthy drives and not the worn ones was judged not worth a new service; the
# owner chose fleet-wide coverage with the privilege exception instead.
#
# The exception is kept as small as the kernel allows: no `privileged: true`,
# no host namespaces, no hostPID. Only CAP_SYS_ADMIN and CAP_SYS_RAWIO are
# added, everything else is dropped, and the only host mount is /dev — which
# is required because the exporter must open the NVMe character devices and
# Kubernetes has no way to pass individual character devices to a pod without
# a device plugin.
# The exception is `privileged: true`, and narrower settings were tried and
# measured to fail — see the securityContext below for what was ruled out and
# how. It is still bounded: no host namespaces, no hostPID, no hostNetwork,
# read-only root filesystem, and /dev as the only host mount.
#
# If this ever needs revisiting: the thing to check is whether the kernel has
# grown a sysfs interface for NVMe health, not whether some other exporter
# needs fewer privileges. The requirement comes from the ioctl gate, not from
# the tool.
# If this ever needs revisiting, there are exactly two things worth checking,
# and neither is "does another exporter ask for less":
# - whether the kernel has grown a sysfs interface for NVMe health, which
# would remove the need for device access altogether
# - whether enough workloads need raw device access to justify a device
# plugin, which is the only way Kubernetes grants individual devices
# The requirement comes from the device cgroup and the ioctl gate, not from
# the choice of tool.
#
# Upstream had no release between 2025-04-22 (v0.14.0) and this deployment.
# The repository is not archived; the pin is simply its newest tag.
@@ -66,38 +68,52 @@ spec:
containerPort: 9633
protocol: TCP
securityContext:
# Root plus two capabilities, NOT privileged. See the header.
# PRIVILEGED, and there is no narrower setting that works. This
# was established by measurement after two narrower attempts
# failed, so the reasoning is recorded here rather than rediscovered:
#
# Attempt 1 — CAP_SYS_ADMIN + CAP_SYS_RAWIO, everything else
# dropped. The exporter found all three drives per node and
# could open none: "Smartctl open device: /dev/nvme0 failed:
# Operation not permitted".
#
# Attempt 2 — the same plus seccompProfile: Unconfined, on the
# theory that EPERM is the default seccomp action for an
# unlisted syscall and the kubelet runs seccompDefault: true.
# /proc/1/status showed CapEff 0x220000 and Seccomp 2, so both
# capabilities were effective and a filter was loaded. Removing
# the filter changed nothing.
#
# What actually settled it: `head -c 512 /dev/nvme0n1` inside
# the container fails with EPERM too. A plain read of a block
# device involves no ioctl, no capability and no syscall a
# seccomp profile would filter. The block is the device cgroup —
# containerd denies non-privileged containers access to host
# device nodes whether or not /dev is mounted.
#
# Kubernetes exposes no per-device allowlist in a Pod spec; there
# is no equivalent of `docker --device`. The alternatives are
# `privileged: true` or a device plugin advertising the NVMe
# drives as a resource. A device plugin is the genuinely narrower
# answer and is worth building if more workloads ever need raw
# device access; for a single read-only metrics exporter it is a
# component to write, deploy and maintain in exchange for the same
# access.
runAsUser: 0
runAsNonRoot: false
privileged: false
allowPrivilegeEscalation: false
privileged: true
# Stated rather than omitted: the API rejects `privileged: true`
# together with `allowPrivilegeEscalation: false`, so leaving it
# out would only hide that privileged already implies it.
allowPrivilegeEscalation: true
readOnlyRootFilesystem: true
capabilities:
drop: ["ALL"]
add: ["SYS_ADMIN", "SYS_RAWIO"]
# The capabilities alone are not enough, and this was measured
# rather than assumed. With the default profile the exporter found
# all three drives and could open none of them:
# "Smartctl open device: /dev/nvme0 failed: Operation not
# permitted"
# EPERM is the default seccomp action for a syscall the profile
# does not list. Reading /proc/1/status in the running container
# separated the two candidates: CapEff was 0x220000, so SYS_ADMIN
# and SYS_RAWIO were both effective — while Seccomp was 2 with one
# filter loaded. The kubelet sets seccompDefault: true, so every
# pod that does not say otherwise gets RuntimeDefault.
#
# This is still narrower than `privileged: true`, which would also
# grant every capability, all devices and write access to /sys.
# Narrowing further would mean shipping a custom seccomp profile
# that allows exactly the ioctl smartctl needs — worth doing if
# this list of exceptions ever grows, not worth it for one pod.
seccompProfile:
type: Unconfined
volumeMounts:
# Not read-only. smartmontools opens NVMe devices read-write on
# some paths, and once the container is privileged a read-only
# flag on this mount is not a boundary anyone should rely on —
# keeping it would suggest a protection that is not there.
- name: dev
mountPath: /dev
readOnly: true
# smartctl is not known to need scratch space, but the root
# filesystem is read-only and a tool that turns out to want /tmp
# would crashloop instead of degrading. Cheaper to provide it than
@@ -1,3 +1,27 @@
# CANONICAL NOTE on the Hetzner S3 credentials. The other consumers point here
# rather than repeating it.
#
# There is exactly ONE Hetzner S3 key, and every barman ObjectStore in this
# cluster uses it. It used to live under four paths — seed/paperless,
# seed/authentik, seed/immich, seed/trmnl — with byte-identical contents,
# verified by comparing SHA-256 fingerprints of the synced Secrets rather than
# by reading them. The same key also sits in infrastructure/velero-hetzner, in
# a different shape (a single `cloud` field holding an AWS credentials file);
# its access key id fingerprints the same.
#
# Per-app paths implied a separation that did not exist. Rotating the key at
# Hetzner changes it for everyone regardless of how many paths hold a copy, so
# the separate paths bought nothing and cost a standing invitation to believe
# otherwise — #397 was opened on exactly that misreading, proposing to give
# woodpecker a fifth copy.
#
# Real separation needs one Hetzner key per consumer, and Hetzner keys can only
# be created by hand in their console. Until someone wants that, one path is the
# honest representation.
#
# Not yet folded in: velero. It needs the credentials file form, so moving it
# here means templating the INI from these fields — worth doing, not worth
# bundling with a path swap that touches every database backup.
apiVersion: external-secrets.io/v1
kind: ExternalSecret
metadata:
@@ -15,4 +39,4 @@ spec:
name: hetzner-s3-creds # keeps the old Secret's name — consumers unchanged
dataFrom:
- extract:
key: seed/paperless/hetzner-creds
key: infrastructure/hetzner-s3
@@ -12,4 +12,4 @@ spec:
name: hetzner-s3-creds
dataFrom:
- extract:
key: seed/trmnl/hetzner-creds
key: infrastructure/hetzner-s3
@@ -1,11 +1,8 @@
---
# Barman S3 credentials for wp-pg.
#
# Sourced from seed/paperless/hetzner-creds, which is not where they belong.
# Issue #397 wants woodpecker to own seed/woodpecker/hetzner-creds; creating
# that path needs OpenBao write access (`bao kv list seed` → 403 for the
# identities available here), so it stays open. The values are identical, so it
# is a one-line swap of the `key:` below once the path exists.
# One shared path for one shared credential — see the note in
# ../paperless/hetzner-creds-externalsecret.yaml.
#
# The namespace allowlist on the openbao ClusterSecretStore
# (infrastructure/post-crds/openbao-clustersecretstore.yaml) must include this
@@ -24,4 +21,4 @@ spec:
name: hetzner-s3-creds
dataFrom:
- extract:
key: seed/paperless/hetzner-creds
key: infrastructure/hetzner-s3
@@ -36,11 +36,9 @@ spec:
target:
name: hetzner-s3-creds
dataFrom:
# Reuses the paperless copy of the shared Hetzner S3 credentials (identical
# ACCESS_KEY_ID / ACCESS_SECRET_KEY / REGION) to avoid seeding a new OpenBao
# path for this migration — same approach woodpecker took. FOLLOW-UP: give
# wordpress its own seed/wordpress/hetzner-creds path once OpenBao can be
# written, and repoint this here (the value is the same, so it's a drop-in
# swap).
# One shared path for one shared credential. There is a single Hetzner S3
# key behind all of these — see the note in
# ../paperless/hetzner-creds-externalsecret.yaml for why per-app paths were
# the wrong shape and what would have to change for them to be right.
- extract:
key: seed/paperless/hetzner-creds
key: infrastructure/hetzner-s3